Word: macho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clancy may also be faulted for setting up a model of macho military behavior that includes potential disobedience of orders. In his zeal to defend the defecting Red October from an Alfa-class Soviet hunter, the commander of a U.S. attack sub considers torpedoing the Alfa on his own authority. Another American officer vows that if the Soviets fire at Red October, then he will destroy the hunter, "and rules of engagement be damned...
These colonial-age McCarthss find an all in the supernaturally spotty angel Alexis Position (Guy LaCrospy) When not rejecting the advances of Lon Sutter (Peter Sagal), a frustrated devil with a macho complex. Alexis is busy trying to tid Salem of its witches. Although the inn matrons are all-too mortal. Alexis goes in for the kill once she sees Lou cavorting with the leggy Anna, a woman literally dripping with scarier letters...
...strawberry seller, stopping the action cold. Musically, the composer settles for a reprise when new material is clearly called for: Summertime, that delicious throwaway, comes back three times. And, surely, the jaunty tune of A Red-Headed Woman is more appropriate to the suave Sportin' Life than to the macho Crown...
...Teri Garr, Shelley Winters) bends and stretches to big-band music while Debbie cracks jokes and offers encouragement. Considerably more demanding is Raquel Welch's Total Beauty and Fitness. The 44-year-old star folds her body into positions that will leave most of her viewers in awe. The macho Armed Forces Workout has unexpected touches of humor: a tough drill sergeant barks commands to the accompaniment, at one point, of Culture Club's Do You Really Want to Hurt...
...acting maintains a generally high level, but the limitations on character growth are written into the script. Roy Scheider turns in a respectable performance as Dr. Heywood Floyd, head of the American team, displaying his usual macho character and coolness in all situations. But the best acting in the movie definitely comes from John Lithgow '70, who portrays Walter Curnow, an engineer who is totally out of his element in a spacesuit. Playing the paranoid role, Lithgow at one point fumbles hilariously with the oxygen mixture controls on his spacesuit and floats helplessly in space hiccuping uncontrollably...